The Truth About Yuwie

Yuwie is a social networking website that supposedly pays its members. You might have seen their ads, they say you can earn cash for using the website - commenting, blogging, surfing, etc. It seems like a pretty neat website, the concept is pretty appealing. However, it's important to know how this thing actually works.

Yuwie makes its money the same way all social networking websites make money: advertising. Simply put, they generate revenue when people visit their web pages, more revenue when people click on the ads, and even more when those people sign up for those advertised websites. The ads on the website are appealing to Yuwie members; most members are looking to make money online, and the ads are mostly for other opportunities to do so.

In order to generate lots of ad revenue, Yuwie tells its members they can earn money through their activity on the website. This supposed reward motivates members to click around, and results in lots of revenue for the website. Yuwie can afford to pay its members for their activity, because their activity makes the website a ton of money. However, Yuwie only shares a small portion of its revenue, and most people don't make a lot of money through the website. In fact, a lot of members don't make any.

The claim that one can make money through their own activity is false. You don't make money when you post something, or visit a page; you get paid based on how many people view your page and leave you comments. In other words, other people get paid when you visit their profiles, but you get nothing. Members are told they can get paid to blog, but that's only sort of true. You get paid if your blog is popular, and generally that means posting tips and tricks on how to make more money on the website.

Yuwie isn't really a fun website to be active on. While most social networking websites have groups with purposes and in-depth discussions, you won't find that on Yuwie. The only popular groups are groups where you join to make friends, but no one really makes friends. People have friend lists, to generate page views, but there's hardly any motivation to view someone else's profile, because there's nothing in it for you. All people want is page views and comments.

While Yuwie is intended to be both a social networking website and an opportunity to make money online, it isn't good for either. If you're into social networking as a way to make friends or stay in touch with the friends you have, stick to Facebook and MySpace. If you want to make money online, this isn't the website to use.